Summer Institute

NC Climate Fellows Agenda
Technology Guide

Tuesday

Chip Konrad, PhD
Recent Climate Variability and Extremes: Is Global warming Responsible?
Presentation: Climate Variability and Extremes: Is Global Warming Responsible?
Worksheet: Exploring the Climate Perspectives Website_2012.docx
Climate Perspectives Website
Tutorial Video for Climate Perspectives Website
Answer Key: Exploring the Climate Perspectives Website_2012_answers.docx


iPad Exploration: Climate Change Resources
The following free apps are available for iPad and can be explored during the workshop.

1. NASA’s Visualization Explorer
2. Skeptical Science
3. Climate Mobile
4. NOAA's Arctic Watch Access to Arctic data is free
5. Our Choice
6. Painting with Time: Climate Change

Linda Schmalbeck
Exploring Earth's Energy Budget


DeeDee Whitaker
Introduction to Remote Sensing
Presentation: Satellite Imagery and Remote Sensing

Other Remote Sensing Resources:
NASA Remote Sensing Tutorial
Table of recorded Thermal Measurements on various surfaces at Botanical Gardens
Relationship between temperature, albedo and emissivity(the amount of energy absorbed by a surface)
NCOne Map data and imagery
National Map-data and imagery


Uma Shankar
Aerosol Impact on Climate
Dimming The Sun
Activity: Using GIOVANNI for Analysis of Global Aerosol Emissions.docx
NASA Image Gallery: Smoke, Dust & Haze


Bono Sen, PhD
Climate Change- A Human Health Perspective
Environmental Health Perspectives Science Education Program
A Human Health Perspective on Climate Change, 2010 Report
Patz_cartogram.png


Sea Level Rise Resources
Visualizing Sea Level Rise on the North Carolina Coast
Google's Sea Level Rise Explorer
NASA's Changing Sea Level interactive!
The Island President movie that Dana mentioned is available for $15 here on itunes.

Alliance for Climate Education
High School Assembly Information

Wednesday

Carbon in Love: Krulwich NPR video

NetLogo
NetLogo's Climate Change Model: Heat Energy




Field Trip To FACE Site
The Forest-Atmosphere Carbon Transfer and Storage Facility with free air CO2 enrichment (FACE) plots
3 minute video about the FACE Site


Exploration of NASA Resources
Judy Walker, North Carolina NASA Educator Resource Center
Video: Take AIM at Climate Change
NASA's Global Climate Change blog... with the tree music!


NASA's CHANGE Viewer


GRACE: Tracking Water from Space
Worksheet: Exploring GRACE Data Visualizations.docx



Linda Schmalbeck



Project BudBurst

Thursday

Lab Activities: Climate Change and the Cryosphere

Melting Ice Worksheet.doc

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Links to accompany sea ice/land ice activity
http://climate.nasa.gov/ClimateTimeMachine/climateTimeMachine.cfm
http://flood.firetree.net/?ll=34.8679,-78.9917&z=10&m=4
http://climate.nasa.gov/ClimateReel/video/Melting_Ice_Rising_Seas_640x360.cfm

Average Total-Sky Albedo scale
http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003000/a003090/
http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003900/a003901/
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2005/arcticice_decline.html
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2007/10/01/science/20071002_ARCTIC_GRAPHIC.html?th&emc=th
this lab references black carbon, but provides no link for students to use to research ... so here's a link


Climate Change and the Cryosphere Resources
UNEP: The Crysophere
National Snow and Ice Data Center
Lesson/Activity - Iceberg Hunting




Jose Rial Presentation - Coming Soon!
Mike Willis Presentation-Coming Soon!
http://www.polenet.org/
Extreme Ice Survey Website




Joel Kingsolver, PhD

Phenology_Worksheet.xlsx

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John Bruno, PhD
The Impact of Climate Change on Marine Ecosystems
John Bruno's Website

NASA Coral Reef Watch Google Earth Products
NOAA Coral Reef Watch Satellite Monitoring
A Global Map of Human Impacts to Marine Ecosystems
The Scientific Guide to Global Warming Skepticism
Jane Lubchenko (NOAA Administrator) demo on Ocean Acidification
Lesson: Keeping Watch on Coral Reefs
Polar Bear International - Tundra Connections in month of November

Other Hydrosphere Resources
Ocean Portal, National Museum of Natural History
Lesson Plan Library, NOAA Ocean Service Education